YTH Live 2019YTH Live brings together people who are working on innovative research, programs, and products that advance youth health and wellness, including public health professionals, youth leaders, social entrepreneurs, educators, nonprofit leaders, technology developers, and more.YTH Live is in its 11th year. YTH Live 2019 will focus on how mental health ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $18 - $550 (see website)
Towards Weak Lensing Cosmology with WFIRST Near-Infrared DetectorsThe Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is an upcoming NASA observatory that will investigate the origins of cosmic acceleration using weak gravitational lensing. WFIRST will perform galaxy shape measurements using Teledyne H4RG-10 detectors; thus it is essential to understand inter-pixel non-linear effects like the brighter-fatter effect (BFE) and non-linear ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
David Wallace-Wells: The Uninhabitable EarthAccording to David Wallace-Wells, we’re cooked - literally. In his recent book, The Uninhabitable Earth, Wallace-Wells explores how climate change will impact not just the planet, but human lives - including how a five degree Celsius increase in temperatures would make parts of the planet unsurvivable.But is panic and doom and gloom ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $20 General, $12 Members, $7 Students
In our world it's difficult to manage without a computer in your pocket. Smartphones open great possibilities for accessing information and communicating over time and space. Yet there is a growing body of research that says that it's costing us, in depression, distraction, and loss of productivity. How can we ...
The laser increased the intensity of light that can be generated by orders of magnitude and thus brought about nonlinear optical interactions with matter. Chirped pulse amplification, also known as CPA, changed the intensity level by a few more orders of magnitude and helped usher in a new type of ...
The Gaia space telescope recently released its second catalog of over 1.3 billion stellar distances, which is helping astronomers map the Milky Way like never before. Jackie Faherty will guide you through cutting-edge visualizations of the most spectacular astronomical dataset of our time - a virtual tour of hundreds of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $15 General, $12 Members & Seniors
